Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Five Questions with Michèle Duguay
A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music
Why evolution favors sex
Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.
The Arnold Arboretum’s 10-year plan for plant collecting
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
Super PACs and their effect on U.S. presidential politics
How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics
Broad Institute Researchers Find New Method to Edit RNA
Feng Zhang ’04 and his team build on previous discoveries in editing DNA.
Centennial Medalists 2016
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four distinguished alumni.
Narrowing School Achievement Gaps
The Harvard Graduate School of Education launches “By All Means” initiative.
Can Price Transparency Reduce Healthcare Spending?
Economists question whether price transparency can reduce healthcare spending.
“The Rise and Fall of American Growth,” reviewed by Shane Greenstein
Definitive economic history—and a debatable, despairing forecast
Dustin Tingley on the domestic politics of foreign policy
Political scientists demystify unseen institutional tensions.
Summaries of early-spring news from Harvard
Action against sexual assault, the Law School drops its shield, “Faculty Deans” now lead the Houses, and more
by John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw , Marina N. Bolotnikova , Laura Levis